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Months in Year 1788: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 45 of 45

Jan 5th - Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer
Jan 8th - Erik Drake, composer
Jan 8th - Archduke Rudolph of Austria (d. 1831)
Jan 8th - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
Jan 11th - William Thomas Brande, English chemist (d. 1866)
Jan 13th - Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer
Jan 22nd - Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron, England, romantic poet (Don Juan)
Feb 5th - Karoly Kisfaludy, Hungarian literary (A Tat rok Magyarorsz gon)
Feb 5th - Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM (1834-5; 41-46)/founder (British Conservative Party)/founder (Bobbies)
Feb 10th - Johann Peter Pixis, composer
Feb 16th - Juan van Halen, Dutch/Spanish officer/adventurer
Feb 22nd - Arthur Schopenhauer, Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist)
Feb 25th - Mateo Ferrer, composer
Mar 1st - Gheorghe Asachi, Romania, writer/humanist/politician
Mar 7th - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
Mar 10th - Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (Das Marmorbild)
Mar 12th - Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor
Apr 2nd - Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet (d. 1862)
Apr 5th - Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund)
British Prime Minister Robert Peel (Feb 5th) Apr 12th - Johann Erik Nordblom, composer
Apr 14th - David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)
Apr 17th - Joseph Gilbert Totten, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1864
May 10th - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, optics pioneer/physicist
May 10th - Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, German queen (d. 1819)
May 16th - Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)
May 18th - Hugh Clapperton, Annan Scotland, African explorer
Jun 21st - Princess Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1850)
Jul 1st - Jean-Victor Poncelet, mathematician, founded projective geometry
Aug 2nd - Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
Aug 15th - Carel SW van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial director
Aug 20th - Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer
Aug 22nd - Thomas Tredgold, engineer/carpenter
Aug 25th - Cornelis J van Assen, Dutch jurist (Language of the Constitution)
Aug 26th - Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist
Sep 6th - F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari)
Sep 10th - Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868)
Sep 12th - Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder (Disciples of Christ)
Sep 21st - Margaret Smith Taylor, 1st lady (1849-50)
Sep 22nd - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)
Oct 11th - Simon Sechter, composer
Oct 20th - Philip Knapton, composer
Oct 23rd - Sarah Hale, founder (Seaman's Aid Society of Boston)
Oct 24th - Sarah Josepha Hale, author (Mary Had a Little Lamb)
Nov 11th - Michal Wielhorski, composer
Dec 18th - Camille Pleyel, Austria, piano builder/composer

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